Improved weather-strip



HENRY W. cAREWfoF vNonwicn, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 94,472, dated September 7. 1869.

IMPROVE!) WEATHER-STRIP.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pxt of the name.

reference being had to the accompanying drawing,.

making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section. Figure 2 is a horizontal section. Figures 3 and 4 are detached views of the elevator. My invention relates to the class of weathcrstrps where the plate is raised into the position designed to exeluderain, snow, dust, Sto., and consists in the peculiar means employed for raising the edge of the plate into the required position.

In the drawinga represents the closed door.

b is the threshold.

e is the metallic plate, and is hinged at its front edge to the threshold,vby means of the staples f.

d is the elevator, and consists of a plate screwed to the outside of the door, and having attached to it an inclined arm, projecting forward and downward, below the jbottom of the door,its point coming into the groove g. This groove is cnt, to the width and depth required, into the threshold, to allow the lower point of the elevator-'arm d to swing clear anda little below the bottom of the door.

e is the moulding-piece, attached to the front of the door in the usual manner, and having a recess, e', cut in, as shown in iig. 1.

The operation of my invention is as follows:

When the door is open, the plate c lies on the threshold b. In closing the door7 the point of the rarm d swings around the arc inthe groove g, coming under the back edge of the plate c, causing it to slide up the inclined top of said arm into Vthe recess e', as shown in fi 1. i

gIn opening the door, the arm d' recedes from under the plate c, allowing it to fall back upon the threshold b, the whole forming a Amore convenient andpositive means of operating the plate, for the purpose described, than the modes heretofore in use.

I am aware that a finger has been used for raising and holding the foot-plate, either up against the lower surface of a fixed plate or against the inside of a vertical plate, the foot-plate being sustained in position by the nger, which is liable to get bent, or otherwise injured,l by any strain brought against the foot-plate whilethe door is closed.

By my arrangement, twill b e seen that the elevator d raises the edge of the plate to the proper height to enter the recess e', so that in the last movement of the closing door, the edge of the plate cis carried back into the recess e', `whereit is held independent of the elevator d.

I, therefore, do notI claim, broadly, the use of the u elevator cl.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-v The elevatorl d, and the groove g, in combination with the plate c, the moulding e, with its recess e', and the door a, all constructed, arranged, and operated substantially as and for the purpose specified.

HENRY W. CAREW.

Witnesses:

J. B. FULLER, A. S. ELKINS; 

